Evaluation of Green Marketing Performance: A Methodological Perspective

Ilona Skackauskiene, Neringa Vilkaite-Vaitone

Abstract


Green marketing has drawn the attention of academics and practitioners during the last few decades. However, no holistic framework has been developed on how to evaluate the implementation of green marketing orientation at the organization level. The article has an objective to analyze methodological perspective of evaluation of green marketing. Authors have identified that questionnaires, interviews, and observations are the most common methods chosen for the evaluation of green marketing performance. The evaluation of green marketing performance can be based on particular scales applicable for the evaluation of green marketing. This study enriches the literature by building a base for the formulation of benchmarks for the evaluation of green marketing performance in contemporary organization. Results of the research have shown that green marketing performance should be undertaken at strategic, tactical and operational levels.


Keywords:

Green marketing; progress; methodological framework; criteria.

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DOI: 10.7250/scee.2019.010

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